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My column last weekend made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the re-election of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era; that the phase of history that...

Across Donald Trump’s presidency, the American establishment achieved an unprecedented level of ideological unity and conformity — first in opposition to Trump himself, and then in the embrace of...

The writer is an American political analyst, blogger, author and NYT columnistIn Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels, a 'psychohistorian' in a far-flung galactic empire figures out a way to predict the...

Joe Biden is an unpopular president, and without some recovery, he could easily lose to Donald Trump in 2024.By itself, this is no great wonder: His two predecessors were also unpopular at this stage...

“I feel somehow / That it isn’t going to last,” Philip Larkin wrote in “Going, Going,” his lament for the English countryside — that development would soon cover everything green and...

To fully understand a problem like terrorism, you need to accept complexity, a sprawl of general factors — personal, historical, cultural — converging in a specific movement or a single actor.The...

Long before Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine, his aggressions were often met by the accusation — levelled by John Kerry and Angela Merkel, among others — that he’s a 19th-century figure in a...

One of the hardest challenges in geopolitics is figuring out how to conduct a successful retreat. We witnessed that reality last summer in Afghanistan, when the Biden administration made the correct...